posted 04-11-2017 05:30 PM                  

He said he wouldn’t bomb Syria. You bought it. Then he bombed Syria.
He said he’d build a wall along the border with Mexico. You bought it. Now his secretary of homeland security says “It’s unlikely that we will build a wall.”
He said he’d clean the Washington swamp. You bought it. Then he brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls than in any administration in history, to make laws that will enrich their businesses.
He said he’d repeal Obamacare and replace it with something “wonderful.” You bought it. Then he didn’t.
He said he’d use his business experience to whip the White House into shape. You bought it. Then he created the most chaotic, dysfunctional, back-stabbing White House in modern history, in which no one is in charge.
He said he’d release his tax returns, eventually. You bought it. He hasn’t, and says he never will.
He said he’d divest himself from his financial empire, to avoid any conflicts of interest. You bought it. He remains heavily involved in his businesses, makes money off of foreign dignitaries staying at his Washington hotel, gets China to give the Trump brand trademark and copyright rights, manipulates the stock market on a daily basis, and has more conflicts of interest than can even be counted.
He said Clinton was in the pockets of Goldman Sachs, and would do whatever they said. You bought it. Then he put half a dozen Goldman Sachs executives in positions of power in his administration.
He said he’d surround himself with all the best and smartest people. You bought it. Then he put Betsy DeVos, opponent of public education, in charge of education; Jeff Sessions, opponent of the Voting Rights Act, in charge of voting rights; Ben Carson, opponent of the Fair Housing Act, in charge of fair housing; Scott Pruitt, climate change denier, in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency; and Russian quisling Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State.
He said he’d faithfully execute the law. You bought it. Then he said his predecessor, Barack Obama, spied on him, without any evidence of Obama ever doing so, in order to divert attention from the FBI’s investigation into collusion between his campaign and Russian operatives to win the election.
He said he knew more about strategy and terrorism than the generals did. You bought it. Then he green lighted a disastrous raid in Yemen- even though his generals said it would be a terrible idea. This raid resulted in the deaths of a Navy SEAL, an 8-year old American girl, and numerous civilians. The actual target of the raid escaped, and no useful intel was gained
He called Barack Obama “the vacationer-in-Chief” and accused him of playing more rounds of golf than Tiger Woods. He promised to never be the kind of president who took cushy vacations on the taxpayer’s dime, not when there was so much important work to be done. You bought it. He has by now spent more taxpayer money on vacations than Obama did in the first 3 years of his presidency. Not to mention all the money taxpayers are spending protecting his family, including his two sons who travel all over the world on Trump business.
He called CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times “fake news” and said they were his enemy. You bought it. Now he gets his information from Fox News, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, and InfoWars.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-update-for-trump-voters_us_58ed00d2e4b0ca64d9199c3b?

posted 04-11-2017 07:26 PM                  

The Wall

Too soon for a verdict on the wall. Illegals crossing the border is at a all time low compared to the last 8 years.

Vacations.

Obama made a similar promise in 2008 and you bought it. He said " you give me this office and in turn , my fears, doubts, insecurities, foibles , need for sleep, family life, vacations, leisure is gone. I am giving myself to you

According to politifact.com it is not exactly clear that his trips to Mar-a-Largo can be classified as vacations.

Tax returns.

I don't and haven't really cared if he releases them. It's a Liberal thing.

Obama spying

I think this will still be proven but the investigation is still not done. So we will see.

I don't have time right now but more later.

posted 04-12-2017 10:57 AM                  

Believe me it was a huge list especially for the liar in chief Obama.

His most recent lie being in his farewell comments that by almost every measure the Nation is better off than before he took office.

Here’s the truth:

posted 04-12-2017 06:50 PM                  

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His most recent lie being in his farewell comments that by almost every measure the Nation is better off than before he took office.

Here’s the truth:

** Real unemployment was at 23%
** Labor Participation Rate was at 62.7% – a 36 year low.
** 11.4 Million Americans have left the US workforce since Barack Obama took office.
** Under Barack Obama American households were worth two-thirds of what they were worth under George W. Bush.
** Under Obama – One-Fifth of Middle Class fell into Poverty
** The number of Americans who consider themselves middle class fell by nearly a fifth over Obama's last five years.
** When Obama left office 11 million Americans were on disability, That’s more people than the population of New York City.
** Inflation has increased 43% more under Barack Obama than George W. Bush

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I wonder if the OP of this thread will respond without another form of liberal SPIN?

posted 04-13-2017 08:58 AM                  

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Originally posted by StingRay:
Rich, would be also interested to see what the influx change of "refugees" (wights on the economy and tax-paying Americans really) were under Obamanation too .... has to be YUGE!

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Here is an article from 2013 from the Center of Immigration Studies on Immigrants.

One can only assume that the majority of refugees coming into the country now are less educated.

http://cis.org/node/4573

Some excerpts.

Immigrant Gains, Native Losses
•Recent trends in the labor market show that, although natives account for the majority of population growth, most of the net gain in employment has gone to immigrants.

•In the first quarter of 2013, the number of working-age natives (16 to 65) working was 1.3 million fewer than in the first quarter of 2000, while the number of immigrants working was 5.3 million greater over the same period. Thus, all of the employment growth over the last 13 years went to immigrants even though the native-born accounted for two-thirds of the growth in the working age population.5

•The last 13 years have seen very weak employment growth, whether measured by the establishment survey or the household survey. Over the same time period 16 million new immigrants arrived from abroad.6 One can debate the extent to which immigrants displace natives, but the last 13 years make clear that large-scale immigration does not necessarily result in large-scale job growth.

•A just-released study from the Heritage Foundation found that the average household headed by an illegal immigrant used nearly $14,400 more in services than it paid in taxes, for a total fiscal drain of $55 billion.

•The Heritage study is absolutely clear that the fiscal costs associated with illegal immigrant households is directly related to their educational attainment. They find that illegal immigrant have on average only 10 years of schooling

Here is an article from 2015 from the Center of Immigration Studies on Refugees

http://cis.org/High-Cost-of-Resettling-Middle-Eastern-Refugees

some excerpts

Among the findings of this analysis:
•On average, each Middle Eastern refugee resettled in the United States costs an estimated $64,370 in the first five years, or $257,481 per household.

•The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has requested $1,057 to care for each Syrian refugee annually in most countries neighboring Syria.

•For what it costs to resettle one Middle Eastern refugee in the United States for five years, about 12 refugees can be helped in the Middle East for five years, or 61 refugees can be helped for one year.

•UNHCR reports a gap of $2.5 billion in funding that it needs to care for approximately four million Syrians in neighboring countries.

•The five-year cost of resettling about 39,000 Syrian refugees in the United States is enough to erase the current UNHCR funding gap.

•The five-year costs of resettlement in the United States include $9,230 spent by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within HHS and the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) within the State Department in the first year, as well as $55,139 in expenditures on welfare and education.

•Very heavy use of welfare programs by Middle Eastern refugees, and the fact that they have only 10.5 years of education on average, makes it likely that it will be many years, if ever, before this population will cease to be a net fiscal drain on public coffers — using more in public services than they pay in taxes.

•It is worth adding that ORR often reports that most refugees are self-sufficient within five years. However, ORR defines "self-sufficiency" as not receiving cash welfare. A household is still considered "self-sufficient" even if it is using any number of non-cash programs such as food stamps, public housing, or Medicaid.

•Refugees are admitted for humanitarian reasons, not because they are supposed to be self-sufficient, so the drain on public coffers that Middle Eastern refugees create is expected. However, given limited resources, the high cost of resettlement in the United States means careful consideration should be given to alternatives to resettlement if the goal is the help as many people possible.